20 10-16-63 It blew hard all night and with it raining in the morning we slept in a bit. Then spent most of the day working on the banding schedules: By following precisely the Manual's and Binions directives on reporting the bandings, it took me all day to work up the schedules, a job which in my own bandings has never taken more than an hour or two atmost for a similar number of birds. some the procedures that we are using are designed for the man who tags 200 birds a year, not in the thousands as the project does. Late in the PM we went seal tagging, and again after dinner: we got 14 new ones, and saw only 11 tagged ones. It is my impression that with over 60 animals tagged, we have marked less than half the animals using this atoll, and I believe that there are a lot of seals here that we will not see until the C&G. runabout is repairedand get over to Sand Island. We also caught several rats which we worked up in the evening. Bill hopes to get his backlog of frozen rats skinned and autopsyed before the weekend: With the bad weather imminent, we will probably accomplish this. In our travels today I noted no unusual birds, but that the Frigates and Red-footed Boobys in particular were soaring in the heavy winds. BANDING TOTALS FOR KURE ATOLL TO DATE - Masked Booby 71 Brown Booby 53 Red-footed Booby 141 Frigate-birds 52 Wedgetailed 154 Shearwaters Christmas Island 6 Shearwaters Bonin Id. Petrel 87 Red-tailed 22 Tropicbird Fairy Tern 2 Hawaiian Noddy 17 Common Noddy 40 -645 10-17-63 And the winds continue to blow. The High wind velocity of 20 to 30 knots is still up and has been all day with intermittent rain squalls also. Spent the AM making the final drawings for the vegitation maps of the shearwater petrel study areas, and all afternoon working on rat skins with Bill. We finally got the materials requested from S.I. today, and I spent quite